[Web4lib] Wikis, access control, calendars

[Lars Aronsson]

John Fereira wrote:
> Hankinson, Andrew wrote:
> > Speaking of Calendars, this may not be ready for prime-time 
> > deployment yet, but Apple just announced iCal Server
>
> I'm just getting started on a project that is going to be 
> looking at the Apple iCal server as well.  In the java 
> community, Bedework is gaining a lot of acceptance.

Is there any use for iCal servers outside of the office/workgroup?  
Is anybody today running a public iCal server, similar to an RSS 
server but for (public) scheduled/calendar events?  Are there any 
iCal aggregator services?

I know there were plans and attempts in this direction in 
Stockholm some years ago, such as announcing concerts and theatre 
plays, but the outgoing audience wasn't ready for this level of 
technology at that time.  The main visionary was Greg FitzPatrick 
and the project's name was SKiCal, which still brings up Google 
hits.  The old Skical.org website is only available through the 
Wayback Machine, http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://skical.org

It took quite some time between the visionaries launched RDF/RSS 
(Microsoft, 1997) and the major newspapers started to provide RSS 
feeds (New York Times, 2002).  And this development never happened 
(not in 2001 anyway) with iCal in the event organizing business in 
Stockholm.


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